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Touch Free

Touch Free

written by: Jazzcat

In theory, state-of-art technology
detects your hands with sensor
to release one measured shot of lather.
Like a young and faithful spouse this attractive,
high performance, counter mount dispenser
puts out reliably and freely (many times before
it needs attention) ample metered doses of
luxurious ejaculate. To activate
just wave your hand for
perfect handwash magic.

In practice, in museum’s powder room,
old sensor’s eye goes roving.
Nothing happens when you move your hands
to beckon soap. But touch-free motion
merely in vicinity of spigot (calibrated not
to waste a single drop of cleansing rinse)
causes precious foam to shoot robotically,
repeatedly, and, useless as an aged philanderer,
trickling its fluid down the drain.

AUTHOR OF THE MONTH

Copper Rose perforates the edges of the page while writing unusual stories from the heart of Wisconsin. She lives with her husband and a black Golden Doodle. She has raised two sons and has been accused of playing well with others. Her most recent credits include the Clarendon Publishing House anthologies; Flashpoint, Rapture, Vortex, and Fireburst, as well as The Literary Crow and Pure Slush Greed anthologies. You can also view her stories at Soft Cartel, Dodging the Rain, Visitant Lit, Terror House, The Drabble, The World of Myth, 101 Word Stories, Who Writes Short Shorts, and Night Garden Journal among other online journals. She also understands there really is something about pie.